Power-Aware Computing

As we get closer to the limits of scaling in CMOS circuits, power and
heat dissipation issues are becoming ever more important. In recent years,
the impact of pervasive computing and the internet have accelerated this
trend. The applications for these domains are typically run on batterypowered
embedded systems. The resultant constraints on the energy budget require
design-for-power as well as design-forperformance at all layers of system
design. Even when batterybased constraints do not exist, energy must often
be conserved, in general-purpose as well as in real-time systems.

The ARTS Laboratory was working on the following power-awareness projects: